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Thirty years ago, Jerry Springer anchored his first newscast on WLWT-TV with Norma Rashid.

Before Springer spoke to Rashid's electronic media class at the University of Cincinnati today, they reminisced about their Channel 5 days for my video – while sitting at Fox 19's old anchor desk inside a College-Conservatory of Music TV studio.

Springer was told on March 9, 1984, that he was being promoted from nightly news commentator to main anchor with Rashid. At the time, Channel 5's news was in fourth place, behind a sitcom on WXIX-TV (Channel 19).

They were immediately sent for vocal lessons in New York City (to try to eliminate calling his co-anchor "Normer"). They debuted on March 26, 1984.

In four years, they rose to No. 1, where they stayed until early 1992, after Springer started hosting his daytime talk show from Channel 9. He left the station in early 1993 to devote full time to his syndicated talk show, now in its 23rd season.

Long-time viewers will enjoy seeing Jerry and Norma talking about how they came together at Channel 5. Enjoy!

Jerry Springer and Norma Rashid talk about their debut as WLWT-TV anchors 30 years ago.